On Wednesday 09 June 2010 20:26:37 Greg Freemyer wrote: [...]
IIRC, when I became a opensuse team member I was given a email address of some kind, but I don't recall being encouraged to use it and I never have.
Assuming I recall correctly and the email address identifies me as identified with opensuse, simple things like encouraging its use by team members is a form of free and subtle marketing that I think can go a long way in making the overall community appreciate how much the suse team contributes.
Greg, that was (and still is) precisely the idea behind the @opensuse.org
email addresses ;)
(I was the one pushing for that, initially, quite some time ago)
And also the fact that implicitly or explicitly, someone with an @opensuse.org
email address is seen as having some sort of responsibility in the project.
Which is why we don't just give them around to everyone, but only to the
openSUSE Members: our contributors.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser